By Art Smith. Posted Friday, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:24 pm Filed Under: Ann Wagner, Featured, Gentry Collins, Mari Cino, Michael Steele, Mike Duncan, Party Politics, Politics, Reince Priebus, Saul Anuzis, Steve Scheffler, TCR Main Site Post
Steve Scheffler is Iowa’s National Committeeman to the Republican National Committee and serves along with Kim Lehman, Iowa’s National Committeewoman, in representing Iowa Republicans on the National Committee.
Steve provided the following update regarding his thoughts about the upcoming RNC Chair election about a week and a half ago. I had hoped to get it posted earlier, but the holidays have been too enjoyable to focus on other things.
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As your Republican National Committeeman for Iowa, I wanted to give you an update on the race for Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The election will be held on January 14, 2011 and we will be electing a chairman for a 2-year term.
I had the privilege of attending a …
By Art Smith. Posted Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 3:23 pm Filed Under: Featured, Iowa Republicans, Republican Party of Iowa
[Update: some of the text of the proposed rule change included struck out content - It's corrected now. - Ed.]
Matt Strawn met with bloggers today to provide a report on the meetings he has attended at the RNC recently. One of the items he brought back was the recommendation from the Temporary Delegate Selection Committee (TDSC), tasked with looking at how to modify the rules around Primaries and Caucuses in the 2012 Presidential Nominating process.
The proposal by the committee, which will be taken up at the Summer RNC meeting in August, establishes a starting point on March 6, 2012 for primaries and caucuses. Iowa is one of 4 states exempted from the date, so we will be able to hold the Republican Iowa …
By Art Smith. Posted Monday, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:41 pm Filed Under: Featured, Iowa General Assembly, Iowa Right To Life, Radio
Tomorrow is Governor Culver’s big Condition of the State speech (or “State of the State” speach, which some have dubbed an “SOS”). We will be at the Statehouse watching the speech, providing commentary here at The Conservative Reader: Iowa, at The Des Moines Register’s web site and on The Conservative Reader Report (www.desmoineslocallive.com) in the afternoon at 3:00 PM.
On the show I will have Iowa House Member Erik Helland from Polk County, and Senator Shawn Hamerlinck from Senate District 42 (parts of Scott and Clinton Counties), along with Kim Lehman, President of Iowa Right to Life and Iowa’s Committee Woman to the Republican National Committee (RNC).
During the first hour we’ll be talking about the Condition of the State speech, along with …
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